CHILDREN broke down in tears last week after hearing a legal battle to save Hermon Community Primary School in Pembrokeshire had failed.

Mr Justice Jack dismissed the application at Cardiff County Court for a judicial review saying the local authority had not acted improperly.

The campaigners, who had already raised £20,000 to fund their fight, fear children will be split up and the community will lose its identity. They now hope to set up a co-operative to fund the school themselves.